Eastern category: 10105 books
Croatia
Land, People, Culture Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
This volume continues the story of the cultural and political history of the Croatian people who have long been noted for their significant contributions to the arts and the humanities. It examines the Croatian language, literature to 1835, the maritime history of the eastern Adriatic, Croatian political...
Virginity Tests & Stray Marriages
Rumours and Realities of Marriage Practices in Contemporary Samin Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
From the mid – 19th century the Samin people have made a contribution to resistance to Dutch colonial rule in rural Java by their non-violence movement and passive resistance (lijdelijk verset). History also notes that they have a unique culture and system of values which reflect their own local...
The Fortress
The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2020
A prizewinning historian tells the dramatic story of the siege that changed the course of the First World War
In September 1914, just a month into World War I, the Russian army laid siege to the fortress city of Przemysl, the Hapsburg Empire's most important bulwark against invasion. For six...
A Buddhist Spectrum
Contributions to the Christian-Buddhist Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Essays distilling a lifetime of thought and practice by one of the earliest explorers of both the physical landscape of Tibet as well as it Vajrayana tradition.
Buddhist Modernities
Re-inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The transformations Buddhism has been undergoing in the modern age have inspired much research over the last decade. The main focus of attention has been the phenomenon known as Buddhist modernism, which is defined as a conscious attempt to adjust Buddhist teachings and practices in conformity with...
Comparative Journeys
Essays on Literature and Religion East and West
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Throughout his academic career, Anthony C. Yu has employed a comparative approach to literary analysis that pays careful attention to the religious and philosophical elements of Chinese and Western texts. His mastery of both canons remains unmatched in the field, and his immense knowledge of the contexts...
Myth and Deity in Japan
The Interplay of Kami and Buddhas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Shinto is a tradition native to Japan that arose naturally on the eastern fringe of the Eurasian continent and was woven over many years into the fabric of people's everyday lives. When Buddhism entered the country in the sixth century, the two religions-rather than competing with or seeking to marginalize...
The Korean Tradition of Religion, Society, and Ethics
A Comparative and Historical Self-understanding and Looking Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
By making Korea a central part of comparative history of East Asian religion and society, this book traces the evolution of Korean religion from the oldest representation to that of the current day by utilizing wide-ranging interdisciplinary and comparative resources.
This book presents a holistic...
The Buddha and His Dhamma
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
The Buddha and His Dhamma was B.R. Ambedkar's last work. Published posthumously, it presented a radical reorientation of Buddhist thought and literature, aptly called navayana. It deals with Ambedkar's conceptualization of Buddhism and the possibilities it offered for liberation and upliftment of...
by Yejitsu Okusa
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
The doctrine of Amida represents the practical phase of Buddhism, and in the True Sect of Pure Land we see the deep meaning of salvation by faith most thoroughly revealed; and it is in this that the essence of Buddhism as religion, apart from its philosophical and ethical aspects, consists.
Thus,...
by Changkya Rölpai Dorjé, Donald Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2019
The most lucid and penetrating survey of classical Indian philosophy in the Tibetan language.
Beautiful Adornment of Mount Meru by Changkya Rölpai Dorjé (1717–86) is a work of doxography, presenting the distinctive philosophical tenets of the Indian Buddhist and non-Buddhist schools in...
by Babaji
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
H. H. Babaji, as He is fondly addressed by his disciples all around the world, spends most of His time in seclusion in His gufa (cave) in the Himalayas. He is the last in a lineage of great Tantric Gurus whose paramparas (traditions) are handed down through the generations by word of mouth. Babaji...
The Sarashina Diary
A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (Reader's Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from deep in the countryside of eastern Japan to the capital. Forty years later, with the long account of that journey as a foundation, the mature woman skillfully created an autobiography that incorporates many moments of heightened...
by Sir Walter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
The "Betrothed" did not greatly please one or two friends, who thought that it did not well correspond to the general title of "The Crusaders." They urged, therefore, that, without direct allusion to the manners of the Eastern tribes, and to the romantic conflicts of the period,...